On my morning walks around parliament House:
1. Repeated short high-pitched shrill calls caught my attention; I was unfamiliar with this bird. I followed the sounds down a track into the trees – and there it was: a beautiful female whistler. She was tall, athletic with her dark hair pulled back in a pony-tail and she was refereeing a netball game. I thought I should share my pleasure with other bird lovers.
2. A lone Long-billed Corella foraging on the grassy parkland on the south side of the PM’s Lodge.
3. A Red Wattlebird feeding soldier beetles to nestlings (a propos of the recent thread).
4. A male Koel calling from the top of a eucalypt so close to the Executive entrance to PH that I had to inform a security officer what I was doing to avoid being arrested or tasered or worse.
Happy birding
David Rosalky
